Resources & Decision-making
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- Created on: 23-03-14 11:33
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- Resources & Decision-making
- Barrett & McIntosh (1991)
- Men gain more from women's domestic work than they give back in financial support
- Financial support from from husbands is often unpredictable & comes with 'strings attached'
- Men make the decisions about money-spending on important items
- Kempson (1994)
- Among low-income families, women denied their needs (such as eating less) to make ends meet
- Hardi (1997)
- Study of 30 dual-career professional couples
- Important decisions were usually taken either by the man alone or jointly
- Man's career usually took priority
- Feminists
- Inequalities in decision-making are not simply the result of inequalities in earnings
- In patriarchal society, the cultural definition of men as decision makers is deeply ingrained in both genders
- This is instilled through gender role socialisation
- Barrett & McIntosh (1991)
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